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Podcast Summary
In a delightful conversation on the show Eventful Endeavors, host Austin Reed sits down with Abby Church, who brings stories and insights from her business ‘A Wedding Come True.’ As the sun shines in Kansas City, Abby shares her experiences and journey into the wedding planning industry, embodying the essence of her business’s name – a dream turned reality for both her and her clients.
From dreaming of being a wedding planner at just the age of 11, Abby’s passion was somewhat ahead of her time, especially in the Midwest. At that time, wedding planning as a profession was still perceived as an exclusive luxury service, and not a common choice, especially in the Midwest. However, Abby had her sights set on doing something great for couples in her hometown.
Fondly recalling her childhood, Abby was nicknamed Martha Stewart, an early indication of her innate knack for planning and decor. Interestingly, her passion didn’t just translate into a business idea, but it also helped her serve her family. She recalls helping plan her oldest sister’s wedding, which she claims sparked her interest in the intricate details of wedding planning. It was at that point that she realized, not only was this her dream, but that the couples in Kansas City also needed a touch of that ‘Wedding Come True’ magic that she could provide.
With ‘A Wedding Come True,’ Abby Church has merged the gap between dreams and reality in the wedding industry, uplifting the narrative of wedding planning from being just for the ultra-luxury crowd to becoming an accessible dream for couples in the Midwest. Her drive and determination to offer something special to Kansas City couples shine throughout the conversation, offering an engaging and insightful dialogue on the transformation of a dream into a thriving business.
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This interview was provided by Felix and Fingers Dueling Pianos
Podcast Transcript
Felix And Fingers (00:24)
What is up everyone? This is Eventful Endeavors. Today I have special guest, Abby Church with A Wedding Come True. How are you doing today, Abby?
Abby Church (00:33)
I’m fabulous. The sun is shining in Kansas City finally, so we’re grateful for that.
Felix And Fingers (00:37)
Finally,
we had the first snowmageddon, then I felt like we had like a half snowmageddon, and then a teaser of like one nice day, and then back to this crap again. It’s so nice to have good weather, finally, consistently again too, you know?
Abby Church (00:51)
But don’t let your guard down because we’re still in the Midwest. So you know, we’re not in the clear yet.
Felix And Fingers (00:55)
Yeah, no, there’s a, you have to trust the groundhog and I think he said at least four more weeks, There’s a, yeah.
Abby Church (01:03)
February is usually when I
pull the plug on being here and I say this every year that I should be on a vacation in February, you know, it’s like downtime for event people so don’t hang around for this nonsense. And then every February I’m here.
Felix And Fingers (01:07)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I’ve been so
spoiled these last couple of years. This is the first winter that I’ve had to put up with in Missouri in a little while because I’ve been working on ships and every single time I plan it strategically, I want to get away from the cold. I hate the cold. But yeah, I had one of them last year where we were sailing out of New Orleans and there was a sea day where it was 42 degrees in the middle of the Caribbean and everyone was just baffled. I just can’t escape it. It just, follows me everywhere. It’s horrible.
Abby Church (01:41)
You brought it with
you.
Felix And Fingers (01:42)
I know,
yeah, I couldn’t tell anyone. I didn’t want them throwing me overboard, but it could have happened. Could have happened. So, A Wedding Come True. Tell me about your business. How did you get started? When did you get started? And yeah.
Abby Church (01:46)
Thank you.
Sure, absolutely. Okay, well first of all, obviously it’s a play on words. A dream come true, A Wedding Come True, and that’s not lost on brides and potential clients and in this industry what we’re trying to do for couples, right? So that came about really early on, the name of the business. I just stuck with it. But early on when I say that, I I decided when I was 11 that I was gonna be a wedding planner. Yeah.
Felix And Fingers (01:59)
Yes.
Yeah.
Wow.
Abby Church (02:20)
Yeah.
And that wasn’t exactly a real relevant career in the Midwest at that time. I mean, I don’t need to go into dates and like age myself any one way or another, but it just wasn’t, it wasn’t that common. You know, really reserved for the ultra luxury, highest budgets. And it just wasn’t, you know, a Midwest thing. Everybody thought that was on East or West coast. But I knew otherwise, you know.
Felix And Fingers (02:41)
Mmm.
Abby Church (02:46)
I knew that it was a skill set that I had and that there was an opportunity to serve couples in Kansas City. Because I’m born and raised here, so I love it. Yeah, so my nickname when I was a kid, I don’t know if you’ll guess this or not, but everybody called me Martha Stewart. This was pre-prison Martha Stewart, by the way.
Felix And Fingers (02:55)
Yeah.
Pre-pro, okay, that’s good note.
Abby Church (03:09)
Yeah, like usually like a nine year old doesn’t sit around watching Martha Stewart and learning about floral arrangements and entertaining and a table, but that’s exactly what I did. So that was it. And just any excuse to have a party or something like that. It really took off when my oldest sister was getting married and we did a lot of planning and DIY work and I was, you know, a lot of grunt work, yes, but I saw what went into it.
And surprisingly, even at that age, what stuck with me the most was at the end of the wedding, my mom recapped everything and said, she said, I never danced with your father all night. I don’t remember having a bite of the food. And when my sister and her new husband were doing their first dance, my mom was like out back, you know, writing a check to the caterer type of thing. So I was like, that is so unfortunate that we spent all this time and effort and just
planning and anticipation and like not just bride and groom but the key players that go into it. That’s what I was like that is that stinks. I don’t think anybody should have to deal with that. So it began there and then you know it was like never had like any kind of identity crisis of what do you want to be? Everybody asked what do you want to be when you grow up? And that’s what I said. It’s like I’m gonna be a weed later.
Felix And Fingers (04:13)
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah. I love that. Jasmine had a really similar, it was a really young age when she got into it too. And when I was talking to her a couple of weeks ago, she’s like, one of the first things I wanted to be a wedding planner. And I was like, I just, I love that. I, you know, I didn’t dream of being a musician. I never thought I was going to be a musician. So it was a really just, it kind of fell into place type of thing. And I was like, well, I guess I’m good at it. I’m just going to roll with it. but no, I was going to go be boring and be an engineer. And, you know, I’m, I’m glad it didn’t work out that way because I, I
I truly love the wedding industry and working with all my friends and everything. yeah, that’s super neat. I love that.
Abby Church (05:00)
It’s like
if you find the industry versus the industry finding you.
Felix And Fingers (05:04)
Finds you,
yeah, yeah. I feel like a lot of people that are really immersed in this industry too are that way. Like it finds them and it pulls you into it. It’s just an ever evolving industry too. So I mean, it’s always changing, it’s always updating. There’s new trends and everything. You talked about the East Coast, like the coastal stuff. feel like, you know, there’s one thing, there’s something to be said about the Midwest and the weddings out here. They’re definitely slept on. They are amazing for sure.
But yeah, the, mean, at least from the wedding band side of it, you know, we follow a lot of like the bands out of New York and whatever hits the coast and we see the trends early and then we pull them to the Midwest. And I mean, yeah, the stuff works, but just an ever changing industry. It’s, it’s just a lot of fun.
Abby Church (05:51)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. can take what’s going on in other cities and, you know, sure, bigger cities than us, but give Midwest flair, give it the hospitality and, you know, everything that we’re known for. But clients are still very discerning and they want to know that, you know, we’re giving them our most creative and bringing them unique ideas that it’s not just like a copy and paste idea or just like, well, whatever trend hits the coast, we’ll get it in six to eight months.
Felix And Fingers (05:59)
Sure.
Yeah, right.
So you wanted to be a wedding planner at an early age. If you weren’t going to be a wedding planner, what do think you would have been?
Abby Church (06:24)
Hmm.
Okay, well, if you asked me prior to 11, when I hadn’t made up my mind, I was gonna be like a marine biologist. Yeah.
Felix And Fingers (06:29)
prior to it. Sure.
no way. Did you
ever know that I was a scuba diving instructor for like a little while? And here in Blue Springs? Yeah. So I worked at the shop called the Playground Dive Shop and my dream growing up was actually to be a marine biologist. So this is before the boring engineering stuff. was so like, I went scuba diving the first time, I was like 15 and was like, this is it. This is so cool. That’s really neat.
Abby Church (06:41)
Really?
wonder, one of my good friends growing up, she did a lot of scuba lessons with her dad, just for fun as a hobby for the two of them together, but then they definitely used it on vacations and whatnot. But I can’t remember where she did her lessons here locally. I wonder if you guys would have ever crossed paths.
Felix And Fingers (07:08)
Yeah.
Maybe, yeah, there are so many shops. And I think there’s like, at the time when I was working, there were like 15, 16 different scuba shops, which is raffling for them to think in Kansas City, like, where are you gonna dive? Yeah, I was always just blown away by that. We took people down to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and we’d train them in Beaver Lake. Yeah, I got to travel all over the world doing that, but a marine biologist, no way.
Abby Church (07:21)
Okay. 14 Midwest, lay on the block. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Well,
mean, but then I realized how much school that was going to take. So I was like, okay, not so much. Now, the things that I’ve learned in business, if you ask me this currently, like, I mean, if I really couldn’t do weddings anymore, for some reason, I love marketing. I think the psychology of marketing is really interesting. And I like to understand, you know, what makes people tick in terms of like buying and
Felix And Fingers (07:42)
It’s quite a bit.
Abby Church (08:07)
making big purchases and yeah, the psychology behind it is really cool.
Felix And Fingers (08:12)
Yeah, that’s interesting.
So tell me about like how, you were born and raised Kansas City. What, give me like a couple of things about the Kansas City wedding scene that like you find unique and like just some of the, like I feel like there’s so many characteristics that are in this city. Like we have so much cultural diversity. There’s like the art out here, the music, everything. Like it’s just a very diverse city. And I feel like that translates into the wedding industry a lot.
I just, know, give me, know, kind of your thoughts on that and kind of what you’ve experienced with the Kansas City wedding scene.
Abby Church (08:47)
Yeah, yeah. A couple of the things that seem like they never go away about Kansas City is that it’s home. It’s not a transient city, it’s multi-generation. With my couples, of course, it’s a family endeavor. Working out still the traditional etiquette of our bride and groom paying for the wedding, or mom and dad, or a combination of his parents and her parents.
Felix And Fingers (08:54)
Mm-hmm.
Abby Church (09:14)
But there’s still so much based on like family values and the Midwest feel. The trend the last couple of years I’ve had with my client list, a lot of my couples have been raised here, but gone off, gone to school, started their careers and moved elsewhere into bigger cities. I get a lot of my couples, you know, they live in Dallas or Chicago or New York and we’re planning long distance, but…
it seemed like it was a no-brainer question that they were coming back to Kansas City to host the wedding here. know, just middle of the map is great. They’re thinking, obviously, ease of access for any traveling guests anywhere around the country. That’s great. But understanding, like, bang for your buck. That’s great. A wedding budget goes a lot further around here, and it’s really fun to be able to show them, hey, you can get X, Y, and Z of your dream versus do you want to price it out and see how much?
Felix And Fingers (09:43)
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Abby Church (10:05)
it would cost to have this same wedding in Chicago or in New York where you’re living. And it’s, yeah, no brainer. So I really like that. I mean, as much as I love pulling from the inspiration of like, okay, your roots as a couple, how did you meet? And then what is your life like now? You’ve both taken jobs, you’ve moved into this new, know, moved into a new city, moved into an entirely new environment, and it’s like fun to mix.
Felix And Fingers (10:10)
Yeah.
Abby Church (10:27)
what’s going on in their lives with also like what they want to introduce their guests to of Kansas City culture. I mean, of course, jazz and barbecue and art and like, right, we can entertain everybody all weekend long and it is not just over country. Yeah.
Felix And Fingers (10:36)
yeah.
yeah. Yeah. Always
love it when they cater in the barbecue at these events, man. is something to be said. Don’t sleep on Kansas City barbecue. It’s up there. We had Q39. yeah. Yeah. Just monster people out here. Yeah, we had Q39 on, not Saturdays. It was yesterdays. They brought Q39 out there and man. Spoiling us.
Abby Church (10:49)
Well, yeah, I mean, that’s when we’re eating while as vendors too.
Yeah. Isn’t it hard
to get back up on stage and perform after that?
Felix And Fingers (11:07)
It’s tough. It takes a special type
of talent, you know.
We just are really good at playing bloated because we, the thing is with, I feel like the bands, whenever like we get, and this goes, I guess, for all the vendors, because we don’t get the hour luxury dinner. You get your vendor meal, you get about 15 minutes and you’re back up. And then sometimes for the band, you don’t even get that. it’s just, just shove whatever you can and you’re just back up on stage. yeah, we have to, that was something, that was just a hard lesson.
that I just had to learn at some point because I love food, I love to eat, but I do also love to sing and I want to keep all of that in me so you know you never never want to see that happen.
Abby Church (11:50)
you can just
blame the sweating. It’s not meat sweats, it’s just the bright lights, right?
Felix And Fingers (11:55)
Yeah, it’s
the bright lights 100%. Yeah, it’s the piano. It’s making me go crazy. Yeah, yeah hands are all these
Abby Church (12:01)
Gosh, yeah.
Some of our best times on wedding days have been sitting back in the conference room, just chowing down on a quick deli sandwich, then get back to it. Half the time, I don’t even want to sit down.
Felix And Fingers (12:13)
Yeah, yeah, can’t
even tell you the amount of cold cuts that I’ve had at some of the country clubs out here. And we’re just sitting in the green room and just talking with all the planners, the photographers. And it’s like, my sandwich is just as good as yours. And we all have a job to do here in just a little bit. yeah. That’s right, yeah.
Abby Church (12:28)
Yeah, our cute little army in there of just like, we just need some encouragement and we need to get back out there.
Felix And Fingers (12:36)
man. So I feel like as a general vendor, you you kind of get to see the the back end of just how a wedding or any type of event, you know, is structured, how it’s planned, how it works. As a wedding planner, you see all of it. You hear about all of it. You know, every nitty gritty detail, which I always admire watching some of the legends work, such as yourself, whenever I get to work weddings with you.
Are there, has there ever been a wedding where maybe something unexpected happened and as the vendors, we have to play it cool. We have to just continue to move. But where disaster was on the line and you came in without anyone knowing and saved the day. Have you had any of those?
Abby Church (13:20)
Okay,
well, this is, you know, not nice of you to ask these questions because…
Felix And Fingers (13:28)
Hey,
this is putting me out there too.
Abby Church (13:29)
You know, there’s things that I want to say like, okay, what anybody not in the industry, their mind immediately goes to is like, the cake fell or, you know, the groom didn’t show up, that type of stuff. I’m like, okay, it’s not the movies every time, but the nuances of what actually can go wrong, but nobody else even thinks of that. That’s the really scary stuff that keeps the wedding planning up. Like,
Felix And Fingers (13:37)
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Abby Church (13:54)
when the classic car has a flat tire on the way to doing their send off, let’s say. And it’s 10 o’clock at night on a Saturday. This is a classic car that has highly specialized tires. Like we’re not.
Felix And Fingers (14:07)
Beautiful
world’s voice. Yeah.
Abby Church (14:10)
It’s not
coming at 10 o’clock on a Saturday night. Like there’s just not, it doesn’t work. You call in every favor you possibly can. But when you’re talking about a prime Saturday in September, it’s like, if they’re not already booked out, then they’re on vacation or they’re not answering their phone at this time. So plenty of times you’re like, I’m so glad I have a deep bench of connections. That always helps of having good friends, calling in a favor.
Felix And Fingers (14:15)
Right.
Abby Church (14:36)
but then sometimes you end up just improvising and you decorate the golf cart and you set up a really cute little cheeky getaway and riding through them are like, what? And I’m like, trust me, I will get you a refund on Monday. Don’t worry about it. Stuff like that. Like we roll with the punches to improvise. Of course my…
Felix And Fingers (14:56)
Yeah.
Abby Church (14:59)
first goal is like, can we make it as close as possible to what they were hoping for? And how can I bring them a solution, not bring them the problem, not create extra stress for them, but what they’ve come to kind of what they’ve really trusted me with and what how we’ve built our relationship is that they’re like, okay, well, Abby’s gonna have an answer for that. And we’re just gonna trust that she exhausted all her resources, which I did. And this is what it brought you. So it’s stuff like that. You know, like, hey, we’re missing
Felix And Fingers (15:16)
Mm-hmm.
Abby Church (15:25)
We’re missing water glasses and we need to let everybody into the ballroom and they’re just not here. You know, it’s little things that as long as I can buffer it away from first and foremost bride and groom and family, wedding party guests, wonderful. That’s why we have Plan B, C, D, and F.
Felix And Fingers (15:30)
Yeah.
Yeah, that’s
why you have the team. That’s why you have all the, you know, I mean, it’s exactly as you said, ruling with the punches. That is this industry. This really is. And it’s not a bad way. It’s just, you know, it’s a selective group of people that are good on their feet and they’re good at the improv. Like they can, they can come up with a solution quickly and efficiently. Um, and it’s a, I don’t know, it’s, it’s a unique thing. Uh, it’s a fun question to ask, you know, it’s never to single anyone out or anything like that.
Abby Church (16:11)
No, no.
Felix And Fingers (16:12)
Because listen, it’s not the movies every time, but I have seen a cake fall. So I have seen the horror story, know. Luckily, I think they brought in like hundreds of cupcakes too. So I mean, everything was set, but what can you do? mean, it’s, yeah, that was a tough one.
Abby Church (16:19)
Yeah.
Okay, yeah.
Well,
as you were saying before, it’s like seeing the nitty gritty. mean, a lot of it also is there’s emergencies and things that happen even before we get to the day, obviously. I mean, so many like we’re already so skinned when we get to the day of like, know everything that’s gone in to make this perfect. We’re not going to lose it in the ninth inning type of thing of like, you know, invitations and don’t get me started on the post office and
Felix And Fingers (16:40)
yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Abby Church (16:56)
her dress and alterations and, you know, out of rooms at the hotel or not being able to get these linens in or something stuck on a shipping container somewhere. Like those are the things that we are putting out for months before we get to Wednesday even. Yeah. Yeah.
Felix And Fingers (16:58)
Yeah.
Oh, sure. Yeah, I can’t even imagine.
Yeah, we just get told where to show up, where to set up, and then we just sing our little lungs out until we can’t anymore. That’s talent.
Abby Church (17:18)
You just bring the talent. Thank you.
I don’t want to get up on the microphone. I mean, when I do, we know that something has gone wrong.
Felix And Fingers (17:26)
We always love it. We always love it. We’ve got a, think we’re doing the twice on Sunday. Scott one here soon where I can’t think of the name of the planner, but, she asked us to, if we could, we could learn the Nat King Cole, the L is for the way you look at me, that song. but she wanted to sing it. And I was like, that’s cool. I’ve actually never had a wedding planner want to come up here and sing with the band at the event. That’s crazy, but I love it. Like it’s not named cream and Hey, you know,
Abby Church (17:52)
Good!
Felix And Fingers (17:54)
Let’s do something crazy. Yeah, yeah, there must be some East Coast trend, you know,
Abby Church (17:56)
She’s got a new angle. That’s her perfect mission.
Felix And Fingers (18:02)
What’s the most common question or bits of advice that you give to couples in the planning process?
Abby Church (18:08)
Yeah, when I’m doing full planning with couples, what I really love about, like, we have a set calendar of our meetings, and we’re meeting at minimum once a month in the beginning, but then there’s a lot of other offshoot meetings, and I really enjoy being able to coach them through understanding contracts, why they’re booking, who they’re booking, saying, did you read that?
you know, line item, did you understand, you know, okay, this is this service fee and this is why they’re tacking on this or this is why they gave you 10 hours instead of 12 hours and is this going to work in our timeline? It’s really fun to help them understand how we lay the groundwork of making the day exactly how they’ve described it to me. So like initial consultations and getting to know couples, like they described to me what they want and then it’s our job to say, what are the
Felix And Fingers (18:42)
Mm-hmm.
Abby Church (19:00)
logistical questions that we’re going to work on for the next 12 to 15 months to not just say, you don’t just land on that day and say, okay, great, this is what we planted. So here it is. like helping them understand the process at a level that makes it fun for them. While I absorb the parts that they’re like, that’s why we hired you. We don’t want to have to think about that. We intend to only do this once in our lives. So you know, contract negotiation, you do this all the time. That’s why you do it for a living.
Felix And Fingers (19:04)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Abby Church (19:28)
I really like being able to absorb that for them and explain enough, answer questions to make it fun, but not overwhelm them. Yeah.
Felix And Fingers (19:35)
Yeah, the third,
it’s important, know, any sort of planning that, you know.
Abby Church (19:39)
Yeah.
And you know, they always have questions like, wow, does it really cost that much? Maybe there’s sticker shock questions. Or maybe there’s like, well, you we really like this photographer, but this photographer does X, and Z. And is there anybody else that does something similar that would be a combination of these two? I love being like a matchmaker with their vendors. They found each other, but now I like to match them up with everybody else. So.
Felix And Fingers (20:03)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Abby Church (20:07)
a lot
of the things that we go through of like personalities and making sure like when that whole team comes together cohesively that they’re like okay I really loved them and now now thank you for introducing us to that person and they’re gonna do all of our Christmas parties and they’re gonna do our babies photos and different things like that.
Felix And Fingers (20:24)
I love that. I can really speak to that. I feel like the community out here too, and I’m sure there’s more like it, but it’s just everyone knows, well, in this industry, everybody knows everyone first off. And then also everyone supports everyone too. Like, I feel like this is a very like come together type of, you know, like there’s always, you know, everyone has their vendor lists, like their people, but it’s…
Just the community is a really beautiful thing here in Kansas City. We’ve got this with Felix and Fingers, we’ve got like a pay it forward campaign is what we call it. And it’s basically like, if they’re still looking for vendors and everything, we forward them all the local people here, just wherever they’re at.
But yeah, when I was building my list, I was just happy because I’m just putting it as like, oh, I love this. I love Hallie. I love all these people. It’s just, I love the community out here and just the willingness of everybody that just wants to work with each other and not against. feel like there’s not a whole lot of just people button heads in the industry out here. It’s a lot of love, which is what it should be.
Abby Church (21:33)
Yeah, yeah, if that’s what we’re in the business of, we got to practice what we preach, right?
Felix And Fingers (21:36)
Yeah. That’s right. That is
right. So not only are you doing the wedding planning with Wedding Come True, you also do the it’s monthly merriment, right? Yeah. So tell me a little bit about that.
Abby Church (21:53)
Yeah, Monthly Marryment is a networking group for KC wedding and event professionals. I had actually taken over as the host back in 2019. It was under a different name back then. It was actually a really cool franchise that started on the West Coast and had chapters around the country. Kansas City has been long running, I think.
Felix And Fingers (22:01)
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Abby Church (22:18)
I think it actually started in Kansas City in 2011. So then I stepped in then when the previous host was ready to step down. I mean, you we all know what happened in spring of 2020. So then we had to weather through that, the thing that will not be named. But what was really cool about it was as we were coming out of the shutdown and events were coming back, it’s…
Felix And Fingers (22:22)
No way.
Abby Church (22:41)
Like you were saying, everybody in Kansas City just loves to support each other. We’re all about relationships. We’re all about these organic connections and being able to support one another in business. And that’s why like these networking events are so crucial. And I loved the opportunity that it A, kept me exposed to all the faces in the industry, but also gave all of them this outlet to connect and build their businesses off of relationships. So,
But it was kind of funny because the Kansas City chapter morphed a lot from how any of the other chapters of this organization were running. So we turned it into a full-fledged, styled photo shoot once a month. We have like 12 to 15 sponsor vendors, a different lineup every month. And everyone gets, it’s a hybrid day. So everyone gets a styled photo shoot during the day as the sponsors. And then we leave it all set up for, you know, typically like 75 to a hundred vendors attend in the evening just to show up and.
Felix And Fingers (23:21)
Yeah.
Abby Church (23:37)
meet mingle and get a talk shop or talk nothing about shop and just make friends. And it was just it was this really cool like you could tell this is what Kansas City needs and this is how we thrive and this is what makes us so unique. So we actually spring of last year we rebranded and created our own name our own entity so Jasmine and I we host this together Jasmine with Hustle and Bustle and
Felix And Fingers (23:43)
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Abby Church (24:03)
We just love making it a Kansas City thing that we own it and we are serving the community in exactly the way that people have spoken and this is what they like. So it’s our way to give back and it’s our way to stay connected. It’s a lot of fun.
Felix And Fingers (24:05)
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, I’ve had the privilege of being on a couple of those. And I think I still have, there was a vendor there that was painting hats at one of them. I still have that hat. I wear it occasionally to some of the dueling shows, because it’s just, I have this salmon suit that is chef’s kiss. It’s beautiful. And I think I actually wore it to both of the events that I was at, those that I worked. But yeah, no, that hat, it’s still hanging up here.
Abby Church (24:26)
Huh.
Nice!
Yes.
Felix And Fingers (24:43)
But yeah, like you said, it’s just a really great networking. And at the same time, it’s a little bit of like, let’s show off a little bit. Like, hey, this is kind of what we do. And it’s cool to see that. It’s just, I love it. I really, really do.
Abby Church (24:51)
You
Well, and that we get a cut loose and hang out like it’s not not be open to couples and knowing that like you would be trying to potentially like, okay, I’m working right now. I’m the room. I’m trying to get business. No, we’re all just there to hang out and enjoy the party since usually we’re working the party.
Felix And Fingers (25:02)
Yes.
Yeah.
Right, right. Well, lastly, I wanted to ask you, and this is just kind of a general question, but what kind of advice do you have for couples that are trying to navigate the overwhelming amounts of options and planning for the big day?
Abby Church (25:27)
It’s not about keeping up with the Joneses. It’s not about keeping up with TikTok and Pinterest and Instagram. So if you can start foundationally with the nuts and bolts of what really matters, A, that builds in so much intention into your day and make sure that you first things first, you prioritize the things that are most important to you.
both just on the plan of okay time, location, who’s gonna be there, but then also how you’re gonna spend your money on this. It’s a very big investment. So first things first is really important. And then anything else that it’s like, this is on my wishlist, like fabulous, let’s make that happen. We’re not necessarily doing everything, we’re doing the most important things. And that’s where ultimately they are.
Felix And Fingers (26:01)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Abby Church (26:18)
happiest in the end. They’re like, I’m really glad I didn’t have to worry about making sure I tied bows on all 250 of those guest favors that nobody took home. I’m like, I know, right?
Felix And Fingers (26:24)
You
That is fantastic. All right.
Thank you so much for your time today, Abby, I appreciate you. Everybody please go check out A Wedding Come True. If you book through this podcast and you find us here, I think you’re doing it $250 off for management packages for 2025. Awesome. So yeah, we’ve got a really great deal here. Once again, Abby, thank you so much. We love you so much. will, yeah, catch you at the next event.
Abby Church (26:43)
Mm-hmm.
Thank you, Austin. It’s a pleasure. Best of luck to you. We’ll see you soon.
Felix And Fingers (26:58)
Thank you.
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